Burdette: aspects of West Virginia workforce part of obstacle in business recruitment
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette says what the state needs most is more educated, trained workers.

Burdette appeared before the special legislative committee on tax reform Monday and told members taxes are down in West Virginia and the cost of doing business is a selling point as he tries to recruit new business...

Presidential contenders’ increasing talk of alleviating the massive U.S. college student debt burden has outsize implications for West Virginia – which has, according to the latest federal data, the country’s third-highest default rate on federal student loans.

Nearly 6,700, or 18.2 percent, of the Mountain State’s roughly 36,700 students who...

Including first lady, 165 get more than $80K in WV state pensions
By Joel Ebert, Staff Writer and Samuel Speciale, Charleston Gazette-Mail

West Virginia’s first lady, newly retired from her longtime position as the president of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, is now drawing more than $110,000 in annual retirement benefits, according to state pension data.

Joanne Tomblin, who retired in June after 15 years at the helm of the college...